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People say that, but plenty of hedge funds and other investors will lose money too. It’s not “hedge fund win, retail loses”. There is a mix. Not just do some of the shorts (maybe many?) lose money, some of the hedge funds on the buy side will get caught too if this comes down fast enough.
However, with each such decision that happened recently (and I swear it's something of a third high-profile ban after the capitol thing), they're angering ever larger groups of people all across the political spectrum. I feel this will bite them hard. This is going to be interesting to watch.
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Ah, let the down-voting begin!

Ok, here are the usual points:

1. Solar has become the cheapest power source:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricit...

2. Uranium mining is dirty and dangerous

3. Uranium transport is dirty and dangerous

4. Producing electricity in a nuclear power plant is dirty and dangerous and produces toxic waste

5. The failure rate of commercial nuclear power plants is almost 1%, which is unacceptable.

6. Decommissioning is very expensive and left to tax payers

7. An incident costs billions in cleanup cost and left to tax payers

8. Nuclear waste disposable in the US is an unsolved problem - and dirty and dangerous - and left to tax payers

Why use nuclear? It doesn't make any sense. From a risk or financial perspective.

Use renewables. The goodness is in the name.

And, yes, you can store that energy, and yes, you can produce a "base load".
The laws regarding importation from other countries are odd, but they are not what you think they are.

In effect, it's about 're-importation' of drugs, not so much regular import.

The Government of Ontario negotiates drug prices for it's citizens, as to other entities elsewhere.

By selling to XYZ regime at ABC price, drug companies create a situation wherein 'the resulting price will be the lowest price we sell to any regime' - because of course everyone will want to import from there.

In many cases, the price sold to XYA regime isn't quite a very good measure of net market prices.

Ergo, it's a weird law, but it's rational on a level.

To start - there could be a slew of laws requiring transparency on pricing for everything in the medical domain. That would be a good start.

More challenging - Americans could actually get together and start negotiating hard on prices. This may require some legislation.

So the 're-importation' issue is an artifact of an odd system, not in and of itself the issue.
> It's tearing society apart and now it looks to damage our economy too.

I don’t see how in this case. If anything it’s revealing the casino that is a huge percentage of our economy as what it is. There are trillions of dollars being bet every day, and frankly this is taking money from hedge funds who “always win no matter what”. Robin Hood indeed.

90% of the stock market is owned by 1% of the population. We have the highest wealth gap in the countries history except maybe the 1920s. Those who benefit from the system control the system - I’ll personally sit here and cheer for the people who managed to get a piece.

And @ your point - you want a rational system where prices are set per the real value of the company, or its future value. This has not been the case since at minimum 1980. The market is currently a casino that happens to capitalize companies, and with 0% interest rates it’s a economy wide Ponzi scheme because everyone with money has to buy high risk stocks to get a real return. WSB or not I do not think a depression due to a financial or currency collapse is almost likely at this point.
I think it would be acceptable to use digital scanners (themselves running open source code on open source hardware) to count physical ballots, with the caveat that the redacted ballots (personal info removed) are published the day after the election for anyone to count.
I love those kinds of sites. But realistically the main reason people don’t build that way is it’s harder to hire for that.
Ask HN: Is being on-call becoming mandatory for senior software engineers?
This is becoming a topic I cannot avoid anymore. As a junior (or even medior) software engineer no one expects you to be on-call, but as a senior software engineer the story changes dramatically. I have been avoiding being on-call successfully so far, but I don't think I can avoid it anymore: my current company is encouraging more and more software engineers to be on-call (paid) and many have accepted already. I have had a couple of job interviews for senior roles and they require on-call availability.

I know that the rationale behind being on-call makes totally sense: teams own their products from conception to deployment and are fully responsible for the availability of their products (this nowadays means, 99.99% of the time, that the product has to be online 24h/day 365 days/year). This encourages teams to write "good code" that has minimum bugs and is performant. I know, it makes sense... but I value much more time than money and I cannot (I don't want to) give more than 40h/week to my employer. I cannot believe one cannot be a competent and professional senior software engineer without having to do on-calls. I mean, I have a damm master's degree in CS and I read dozens of books about programming and software engineering per year; I follow (I try to follow) the best practices and being up-to-date by reading sites like HN, I do side projects and contribute to open source... I just don't want to give away my free time just for more money.

Anybody else in the same situation?
he also said, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
> Self-made just means that you made the money with your own effort as opposed to inherited it. There's nothing in that comment that attempts to paint them as relatable.

I disagree. The point of the term is not to describe a financial technicality. If someone inherited $900m and worked really hard to earn another $100m, I think most people would be confused to hear them described as a self-made billionaire. On the other hand, of course, people wouldn't tend to be confused if you described some billionaire as self-made if they grew up lower-middle-class and their parents gave them $100 when they turned 18.

So, yes, it's not an "all or nothing" thing, but it is absolutely about conveying relatability to a certain audience. We can reasonably disagree about whether describing Bezos as self-made is appropriate for the HN audience, but I tend to think the $250k "business loan" from his parents should at the bare minimum accompany the inspiring anecdotes about making a desk from a door (which, from what I have read, was literally done to symbolize the imaginary need for extreme frugality).
It's worth noting that Crate isn't contesting that SSPL is a perfectly legitimate open source license, it's the GPL part that's the issue for them.

GPL and AGPL are just as much used to "poison the well" for potential competitors to a product also released as open source, and dual licensing strategies are a well-known part of open source businesses. This hasn't changed with SSPL at all, there's just a lot of pearl-clutching about the fact that the high and mighty OSI has not signed off on it.
Doesn’t work when the platform is aligned with the community you are trying to bomb.

You can write anything in r/politics - the sub won’t be banned, because reddit supports this sub no matter what.

You can write anything in a FB BLM group - the group won’t be banned.
Irresponsible gambling costs the government money because we have safety nets. This applies to both institutions and individuals. The government needs to bail out banks and provide social welfare.

It's not a moral issue to me. Gambling through leveraged stocks should to be taxed more heavily to offset its cost. Something like the rate on lottery tickets.
Actually Bannerbear generates any image of any size, for any purpose :)

Open Graph images is one use-case, but it's actually quite a small niche within my current customers.

The most common use case is people who have spreadsheets full of data that they want to turn into some sort of image, like a product catalog in an excel sheet that you want to turn into social media posts.

Another use case is any time in an app where you need to generate an image on-demand. For example if you're sending a weekly summary email to your SaaS users and you want to generate some sort of dynamic image to show their usage stats (with charts / metrics etc).
There has never been either a legal or moral right in any tradition of freedom of speech throughout history, including the US tradition, to insist that other private parties who disagree with your speech continue to do business with you. The strong US freedom of speech protections are about government action only, and even those have exceptions. Every judgment of this sort has some subjectivity, and that's fine.

If someone dislikes Discord's judgment on that matter, they can switch providers or run their own service. If every viable provider stops dealing with them, that kind of implicit collective judgment and its consequences have always been part of humanity.

Also, most Western countries other than the US do have laws or judicial precedents which define terms like hate speech and provide penalties for engaging in it that are routinely adjudicated and enforced by courts. Even US judges consider hate speech as evidence an aggravating factor in how they handle crimes with hate as a motivation, accept the illegality of incitement to imminent violence, etc.
It's a difficult decision to open-source something you've worked very hard on and could very well make it much easier for competitors to destroy your moat. I wonder if anyone would support such an open-source framework financially.
Retail is 25% of the market these days. Google it.
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Before it went private I popped in and saw a thread where they were debating and coordinating what to do b/c they apparently had big issues today with bots and so many messages. Earlier I saw a few comments about downvoting bots all day.

They were debating whether it would be worthwhile and feasible to limit posting to people who had commented in the reddit 6 months prior as a filter.
Speaking of the f-word, I’ve seen it used non pejoratively at the embarcadero farmers’s market. One of the vendors sells them for home decorative purposes along with cattails, lavender, etc.
4chan hosts it's own server: — how could it?

Cloudflare did drop 8chan for political pressure.

Both also have a very undeserved reputation. I saw news reports on 8chan as if it were something similar to Stormfront. The front page was mostly video game and pornography and one had to search very deep into it's hidden circles to find racial supremacy content.
I use a 13" MacBook Air :)

I guess large fonts is just my preferred aesthetic - may not be to everyone's taste.
Thanks. Having worked as an LVN before I was just curious if there were really LVNs out there making that much. $30/hr still seems high ime but I know it can very location dependent.
How about stereo front facing cameras this time around? You know, to not run into stationary objects.
It would go to the first buyer under the limit. So for example if you had a stop loss at $200 and the stock went from $201 to $2, it would sell for $2.
Remember: Parler tried “making their own X”. They were taken offline by a concerted effort at every level, despite the fact that a large portion of the capitol protests were organized on Facebook and YouTube.

Anyone who’s ever been an activist for long enough knows that the censorship that silenced your enemies will eventually silence you.

Corporate policing of speech needs to stop.
Fair point. I guess you would still have to have your conventions (and actually follow them) about what you put in the attributes for which kind of product. I am thinking though, that if you need to implement any new functionality for a specific product, you would discuss it with other developers (or yourself, if you are alone) and find a good convention of what to store and then on another part of the program make use of it. If you wanted to encode the convention into your code, you can create product type specific constructors, which you have to use (another convention!) when creating such a product. Still lighter weight than creating a class for everything and avoids coupling behavior with state.

I guess the approach stands or falls with developer discipline. If you one is not disciplined enough about the conventions and carefully choosing them, one could end up with a mess of a mass of unknown keys in products, which no one knows why or how they got there.
For a sight that is so necessary to most Americans, it's really lacking in basic information and excessive in unnecessary information

PEBKAC. You've been scammed. That's not a DMV site. It's a web site that does very well playing Google's SEO game.
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Well they messed with the retards, and they're about to get the strength come tomorrow.

Diamond hands all the way.
Thanks for the submission! It was the middle of the night for me, so I'm only just replying to comments now in the morning :)
> What if Tesla ends up with more or less a monopoly?

Tesla has "Open Sourced" their designs.

> But will they?

I don't know if Tesla will allow others to use their supercharger network, but anyone can use their designs for building a charging station for Teslas.
Don't wait too long, the market's for it's already here, and huge. "Data scientist" is one of the fastest growing programming careers. Companies will pay good money to make their data scientists more effective. Look at Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Tableau, etc. Look at the Looker acquisition by Google. Also look at Splunk as a query language.

It's not remotely easy a business though. Read the uphill battle just in the HN comment thread on the Looker acquisition by Google.
This, 100%.

Even if WSB users and other retail holders held like, 30%, Burry holders 3%, and Cohen holds 10%, there is still more than 50% out there which may be bought by others. There aren’t enough interested Americans to buy the rest of the company.

Other hedge funds and big investors are in on the action. These shorts got caught in a bad spot and now they are paying for it. Once all the retail traders get screwed in the media, others on Wall Street will quietly take their bonuses and go out for drinks or a new car. Nobody will report how much money they made. Why would they?
I don’t quite get the point you’re making then, as there’s a lot of generic citralopam on the market, despite escitralopam being patented.
Looks like WSB is back. Mods took it private to probably do some bot-cleansing and to figure some things out given the sub is 3.6 million strong now, and the growth just in the past week is insane.

They definitely feel let down with what Discord has done though and seeking help from the community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6j4r9/wher...
Hmm, Al Gore must be smiling. It’s 40 years late, but his dream is almost come true.
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He probably meant a Graphql API in front of the DB (e.g. Hasura)
Have you studied healthcare/drug distribution in other countries? If so, could you identify things that work from those examples, and comment on why the USA lacks those characteristics, and how your new venture might go some way towards making amends?
Yeah this was a low blow from Discord

I get they're probably scared as hell, but they don't even take care of the child porn or child grooming Discords.

It's not even slightly paranoid to say that somebody gave financial incentive to make this happen, but for them to censor with absolute bullshit reasoning behind it... This is just not good.
Why wouldn't the probes be automated as well? I would expect some party to eventually unleash hatespeech spambots on the Internet, posting ban-worthy comments anywhere they can reach.

The flood of those comments would both drown out any manual attempts at hatespeech, while also being so unilateral that it wouldn't really make sense to ban any individual community for having them any more.
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Every single build tool I still use. They’re either trash or constrained by trash. The “easy to use” tools are typically the hardest to use because they make everything that happens either totally opaque or incredibly difficult to introspect. Basically none of them follow the principles that are otherwise idiomatic for their platform (example: I cannot name a single JS-target build tool which is type safe or even validates configs before execution; I certainly can’t think of one that’s generally stateless or promotes composition). They all tend to rely on wildly unknowable magic to work around platform inadequacies.

If it sounds like I have a better approach in mind, I sure do. My main stacks are TypeScript on Node & Browser. Tools for these builds could easily be type safe by being built with TS as an assumption, and easily debuggable by being piped in stages just like a normal Unix chain. This doesn’t have to be wildly inefficient, the type system knows enough to determine what can be processed concurrently, and intermediate build products could be virtual without hitting the FS.

A naive approach just to prove this out would disregard those efficiency considerations and just literally pipe a series of builds with existing tools, each one taking the previous product as input.
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Sue Wall Street for market manipulation
> I've heard this style referred to as the bag-of-functions style.

If your main point of abstraction is the subroutine/procedure/function that modifies state, then it’s called procedural[0]. No need to rename it.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming
I feel this is the appropriate place to mention the unusual prescience of The Economist's parody article on banning "naked longs" (in response to the bans on short selling temporarily enacted in the 2008 crisis):

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2008/09/25/a...
My first word of advice for aspiring tech entrepreneurs: Be determined.

I kept working on this with almost all my free time even after making zero technical progress (on making it high-performance and smooth) for four months.

My second word of advice: Never make a logo or name before your MVP, unless you need to convince investors. (I don't have investors so I can't speak on the relevance of a good logo and name.)

- If you're making something good, people will make logos for you. My logo was made by a community member for free.

- My team started choosing our name an hour before we launched. Once you know your market well and your product well, choosing a name is easy.
"when the 'Experimenter' appealed to the necessity of science, compliance rates where highest. When the Experimenter appealed to pure authority and gave direct commands, compliance rates were low."

This is maybe the most important detail to me which seems to be overlooked.

Often people fail to recognize that there is such a thing as legitimacy of authority, and that's a real thing. No one of us is an expert in any field, it's hard to make heads or tail of the nuanced issues in all of these arenas. We often have to trust the legitimate authority. Which makes it all that much harder when a) maybe doing some action appeals to a darker aspect of human nature or b) the authorities are corrupt or c) the authority is maligned by some other failures, such as bad information.
> Ok, humor me for a second: What's wrong with that?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and in fact it's so simple that afterwards we can even write a script to automate setting those variables.

Who needs convoluted build systems anyway?
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The problem with Georgia and Dominion Voting Systems in particular is that the ballots are digitally printed and can be printed on the fly. They are subject to manipulation by a single compromised person in a voting precinct through the system's "adjudication" process. In some precincts, DVS machines were failing at a rate of 70%, leading all ballots to be sent to the precinct overseer who literally just clicks and drags ballots into whatever candidate they think the person voted for. Doing this actually changes the record. Yes, the original ballot record gets destroyed and a new one gets created. It's that insecure. These machines also require USB transfers between ballot machines and a central machine. In some cases thousands of votes were found a a USB thumb drive weeks after the election. DVS is that convoluted and that bad.
In my opinion Zero Hedge is more doom and gloom boomer centric and racist/hate filled. Despite Wall Street Bets use of what would be considered foul and derogatory language, giving back and donating to charities is encouraged. There was a post showing a donation of $420.69 encouraging others to donate gains to an autism charity given how freely the term is thrown around and how the majority of the community is a self proclaimed autist.
As an ex-scientologist, I know how labeling websites "Hate Speech" can be abused. It's only when I ignored their "Hate Speech" warnings that I was able to figure out the fraud that is Scientology.
It's a good question. My churn rate is still quite high at around 10%. So I definitely cannot coast, I have to actively market and make sure my growth is higher than my churn.

When I take my foot off the pedal and stop marketing, I feel it - I get less targeted signups and less conversions.

So this is a full time job right now, it's not a "set and forget" style business!
> The real question is whether Elastic will continue the benefit of externals creating pull requests against their (now) non OSS code base.

SSPL is still open source, it's just aggressively copyleft. (Note that Crate is upset about them going GPL, not going SSPL.)

As for the question, depends how much their code diverges... Shoudln't be any reason Elastic can't continue to absorb contributions made to Amazon's Apache-licensed fork, until they move too far apart for the code to be relevant.
Oh it's not a secret, 4chan is and has been for decades actually proactive (or at least no supoena needed) with sharing data with LEO and has strong (albeit US free speech levels of) moderation across all of the site.

If a UK citizen were to post as offensively as a US citizen they would and have been arrested. The site doesn't give protection.

I steer clear of it, but wonder if with more EU like moderation a better site could be formed.
Are you saying bubbles never form and the market value equals the underlying value of every asset? No speculators? Please.

And these guys aren’t even taking money from those late to the party, so much as from the short sellers (vultures) who were happy to see the company go into the ground.

Elon Musk hates short sellers with a passion. They try to sabotage a business.

When trading is halted on a stock that is in freefall, I can understand that. But here they are halting a stock that is rising based on short squeezing! Honestly 148% naked shorting by private hedge funds should be illegal, and you’re gonna tell me that the government should side with the short sellers against a crowd of everyday people who are INVESTING INTO A COMPANY THEY LIKE?

How exactly is wall street the little guy? They snap their fingers and get trillion dollar bailouts instantly. Regular people barely get a $1200 check. And now even speculative SHORT POSITIONS are supposed to be protected??

This sounds like how a casino finds out that a game has a loophole and then tells people they can’t actually keep their winnings. And the fourth wall is broken. Apparently hedge funds can short any stock and if regular people notice and beat them back, then it’s the speculative hedge fund that’s trying to kill the company, that should just go ahead eh. How dare regular folks threaten the tried and true methods of speculation?